League of Legends MSI Finals Most-Watched Esports Event Ever

 Over One Hundred Million Viewers

Esports have turned into a pretty serious spectator event over the last few years. As an example, The League of Legends MSI Finals were watched by 127 million people. Thatโ€™s an insane amount of viewers! Granted, this is largely in part due to their international audience, but thatโ€™s still nothing to sneeze at.

League of Legends MSI Finals

For reference, the most recent Superbowl had approximately 103 million viewers. When youโ€™ve outclassed the biggest sporting event in the US in terms of numbers, thatโ€™s when you know youโ€™ve gotten big. The four-game series that saw Chinaโ€™s Royal Never Give Up take down Koreaโ€™s Kingzone DragonX 3-1 had exactly 127,551,726 people watching. This is a major increase from the League of Legends World Championships last year, which peaked at around 106 million viewers. Again, those are higher viewer stats than the most recent Superbowl.

When I say international audience, I apparently mean Chinese. According to the same stats that gave us the viewer count, 126,603,865 of those viewers were Chinese. Thatโ€™s an amazing amount of home team support for Royal Never Give Up. The most recent World Championships would have had similarly amazing numbers, but Chinaโ€™s team never made it to the Finals. You can check out the rest of the stats from the tournament over at Esports Watch.

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